Lindsay Posner will direct Richard Bean's new stage version of David Mamet's film, House of Games previewing from 9 September and running until 6 November, with press night on 16 September. Designs are by Peter McKintosh with lighting by Paul Pyant and music by Django Bates. House of Games is sponsored by Aspen.
The cast is Nancy Carroll (Dr Margaret Ford), Trevor Cooper (George), Dermot Crowley (Joey), Amanda Drew (Trudi/Carla), Peter De Jersey (PJ), Michael Landes (Mike), John Marquez (Bobby) and Al Weaver (Billy Hahn).
Harvard-educated psychoanalyst Margaret Ford is celebrated for her bestselling book ‘Driven! Compulsion and Obsession in Every Day Life'. Helping one of her patients settle his gambling debts, she compromises her professional reputation and is drawn into the seedy underworld of the House of Games poker club. Seduced by charismatic hustler Mike, Margaret convinces herself that she can make an academic study of the con-artist. Before she realises it, Margaret is entangled in a fast-paced thriller.
Nancy Carroll was last at the Almeida in Samuel West's production of Waste. Previously she appeared for the Company in Jonathan Kent's production of King Lear. She has worked extensively for the National Theatre in productions including After the Dance, The Man of Mode, The Voysey Inheritance, The False Servant and The Talking Cure, and for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Twelfth Night, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, As You Like It, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and The Winter's Tale. She was most recently in the West End in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre. Her film credits include Iris and An Ideal Husband and on television she has been seen in Cambridge Spies, Doctors and Midsomer Murders.
Trevor Cooper returns to the Almeida where he has previously been seen in Michael Attenborough's productions of Measure for Measure, Awake and Sing and The Late Henry Moss. His other theatre credits include Arcadia in the West End, The Tempest for the Royal Exchange Manchester, Playing with Fire for National Theatre and King John, The Prisoner's Dilemma and The Lieutenant of Inishmore for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His television credits include Spooks, Outnumbered, George Gently, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Ruby in the Smoke and My Hero. His film credits include Happy Go Lucky, Elizabeth and Vanity Fair.
Dermot Crowley was last on stage in Breakfast at Tiffany's at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Previously he has been seen playing Donald Rumsfeld in Stuff Happens at the National Theatre as well as roles in Calico at the Duke of York's Theatre, Scenes from the Big Picture at the National Theatre, The Weir at the Royal Court and The Hostage for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His many television credits include Margaret, in which he played Airey Neve, Luther, Bleak House, Spooks, Foyle's War and Trial and Retribution. On film his credits include Holy Water, Babel, Little Dorrit and The Return of the Jedi.
